TKAMB Chapters 4-6

We talked in class about what we think about Scout's unreliablity and How responsible Atticus is for his children. These 3 chapters really represented both of those. Atticus tries his best to take care of his kids knowing that their mother is no longer in the picture but in this chapter Jem, Scout, and Dill were all able to get into the Radley's yard and get out without being caught by nor the Radleys or Atticus. My question is does this really affect Atticus' rep as a responsible parent? I personally don't think it does because it was pretty hard catching them in a lie, mostly because Atticus does not know Dill's behavior and how he squeezes his way out of everything.